The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-02-11

the other)is being broken down, and whose
right and duty it is to guard the steps Of
those who look to them for advice on every
question, and most of all on the main ques-
ton, are coming up to the help Of the Lord
and Of the boys and girls against the
army as much domesticated in Australia
as it is in England, as well known among
the white population Of India as it is in
Canada or the United States.
But there is another wish to speak Of
besides the prophet and the teacher, and
that is of the apostle of this movement.
Mrs. Butler and Elliee Hopkins, and the
following that such women would nat
urally gather about them, began to see
that while it is beautiful and right to work
religiously and morally, it is just as beauti-
FIJI and right to work legally. We must
gather up all this public sentiment which
is being made: we must condense it
through the electric battery of the bal
lot box and send it tingling along the wires
of light; for in the last annals the philan-
thropists of any age find their true express
sion on the statue books So they intro
duced into Parliament criminal reform
bill for the protection of women, and Par
lament threw the bill out nine consecutive
times; and then the women went to a
bright young journalist, one of the most
gifted in all the B, fish realm, William T.
Stead Applause. He was the son of a
Congregational minister. He was knight
of the new chivalry. Women do well to
applaud his name. He has won fame. DR..
Da Costa said when he stood where | am
standing, there is no marble white
enough 20 make him statue Applause.
and it is well, that although tardily, We
have come to understand what William T.
Stead did for the womanhood of his own
and of ali nations
These good earnest-hearted workers had
not the mighty gatling gun OF the press at
their command, but the Pail Nall Gazette
was one of the most popular papers in
England. SO they went to Mr. Stead and
tolC him to say nothing about the sacrifice
of womanhood; that girlhood was being
crushed under the heel of the vice of Lon
don; that there were outrages which no
language might measure: that the people
did not know it. if they could only know it
this Reform Bill would speedily be passed.
And Mr.. Stead, after his journalistic fashion
said You know cannot describe what
have not seen. I cannot put half the heart
into this as if knew it was so. will go
and see these things for myself. Although
do not disprove your statements, | must
be able to photograph on my mind these
horrible scenes and then can give them
to the public
And so Mr.. Stead went to the Arch Bish-
OPP of Canterbury and said Il am going
down into the neither depths of London,
but | want you to know why | am going.
so that You may defend me should oeca-
sion arise" Then this christian Theseus.
taking into his pure hand the clue which
christian women furnished him, descended
into the labyrinth. II is not lawful to ut
ter in this presence what he beheld, but he
came back again to the light of God just as
pure and just as true as he had descended.
And when he came up into the light he
told the British public what he had seen;
not all, but he told enough to arouse them
as they have not been aroused since there
was an England; so that the revolli-
ton of feeling was SO great that within one
fortnight the Criminal Reform Bill, that
had hung with its Topped sails through
nine sessions of Parliament. with its sails
filled and rounded out with the breath of
an aroused Indignation and educated pub
lie opinion, was borne into the harbor of
an almost unanimous adoption. That is
what came as the sequel of the work of
William T. Stead. Applause.
But you know they could not receive the
IaN Nall Gazette any longer at the clubs
The clubs were quite too pure. Sir Charles
Dixie would not read a paper Of that char
acter, [laughterl and from all their
quarters the paper was expelled. The An
gle american and other papers gave us all
wrong opinion about this, so that when
first began to speak of Mr.. Stead, | had
constant letters OF warning ''Oh, dom
speak that name in public; it will injure
YOU" and said, Il will stand as sister
and state the truth about that man, al
though stand alone, and take what comes
to me" And we found out that in Exeter
Hall, London, the Young Mems Christian
Association, Away conservative, presented
a bible to Mr.. Stead, in token of their con-
fidence. We found out that three thous-
and dollars in pennies were presented to
him from as many different women. We
found ont that there was not enough that
could be said in his favor by the christian
people of England. Lord Shaftesbury,
the very last address he ever made, was on
behalf of Mr.. Stead, and the Arch Bishop
of Canterbury and Samuel Moreley inves-
tigated all the charges, and it was as Mr..
Stead had told us. William Arthur, with
his tongue of fire. spoke out his blazing
wrath against the calumniators of Mr..
Stead, and the Queen, although she had
not the power to do more | suppose, did
this much as | was informed by Miss
Elizabeth Blackwell, in response to my
inquiry; after two or three days, the Queen
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